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It's enough to make Todd Blanche as the GOP panics and recesses early [1]
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Date: 2025-07-22
Trump abruptly hangs up on CNN when asked about new Epstein photos from Trump’s second wedding.
The Republican speaker truncated the schedule for the week and said he would send lawmakers home on Wednesday to deny Democrats the chance to force votes on whether to release the Epstein material.
There is no doubt that the content of these files is an atomic bomb in the heart of the USA, especially the Republicans, Trump and who knows what else.
An unprecedented cover-up will greatly harm Trump and the USA.
The door to speculation is wide open!!
Mr. Johnson’s move will, for now, deny Democrats the chance to force procedural votes that would call on the Justice Department to make the information public. It reflected how deep divisions among Republicans on the matter have paralyzed the House, where G.O.P. lawmakers are trying to avoid another politically perilous vote on an issue that is confounding President Trump and roiling the MAGA base.
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Mr. Johnson’s decision to shut down the House early was the latest example of how the speaker has in many ways ceded the chamber’s independence in order to please or avoid angering Mr. Trump. He has deferred to the president on matters large and small, including when it comes to Congress’s spending power. He quietly maneuvered this year to yield the House’s ability to weigh in on Mr. Trump’s tariffs, in order to spare Republicans from having to cast politically tricky votes on whether to end them.
In the case of the Epstein files, House Republicans are once again surrendering their institutional autonomy to appease a vengeful president. Afraid to cross Mr. Trump, but equally fearful of right-wing supporters who are demanding the release of the material, they chose to simply pack up and go home. In doing so, they also undermined their own agenda, punting what were to have been their last substantive votes before the summer break.
www.nytimes.com/...
Two sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, confirmed the existence of training videos instructing personnel on the process of tagging mentions of Trump, and that the videos were actually embedded in a PowerPoint deck (or decks) that lived on the shared drive. Several others confirmed the existence of the excel spreadsheet containing the document number and page number in the Epstein files where Donald Trump’s name appears.
In addition to those confirmations, descriptions of the general operational security surrounding the Epstein files has been described as “abysmal” and “horrific.” As of now, I have been told that at least four components across two agencies in multiple locations had or may still have access to the files.
www.muellershewrote.com/...
x Again, I suspect what Todd Blanche is trying to do for his client Donald Trump is to get Ghislaine Maxwell to implicate someone flashy (someone LIKE Bill Clinton, tho not necessarily Clinton), which Blanche will use to release her from prison. www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/22/t...
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